Lou Dobbs thinks Newsom is a “Little Darling”

We’re not quite sure what to make of this — and the potential visuals are stomach-turning until you hear the context — but CNN’s Lou Dobbs called Gavin Newsom a “little darling” a couple of times on his show this week.

Lou D. was ticked about the story about how San Francisco had been shielding juvenile drug offenders from federal immigration authorities. It’s a story that (backpat alert) The Chronicle broke (and Lou congratuled The Chron for.)

Now longtime Lou D. viewers — or really anybody who’s tuned in for about 10 minutes — know that all roads on Lou’s show lead to the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration. So this story was a godsend (read: multiple shows worth of material) to Lou D.

On his show, Lou explained that he refers to Newsom as “a little darling “because he’s so doggone precious, Gavin Newsom, thinking somehow that a illegal alien is somehow free of responsibility for paying off human smugglers, that drug dealers are somehow free of responsibility for breaking our laws and devastating lives throughout this country. It is incomprehensible that a community and a city as wonderful as San Francisco could support that kind of just utterly intellectually fraudulent and irresponsible action on the part of any public official. It’s extraordinary.”

Oh, Lou D.’s got more:

“So, the man I can’t really refer to in much of any other expression rather than just little darling. I could use other language, but he just strikes me as a little darling, Mayor Newsom does. He, in my judgment, owes the folks of San Francisco, all of us, an apology for his immaturity, his irresponsibility, and for just being such a precious fraud.”